On Dec 31, 2008, at 3:57 PM, GEOFF CREALOCK wrote:
"... All memories are fiction" I wonder if you would feel constrained if you were required to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".
The truthfulness you allude to is a legal concept. A crucial part of this use of "truth" is that it can be verified, or at least subjected to tests of its veracity. Please note that in court, when testimony is given and evidence adduced, all of the testimony and much of the evidence consist of representations, which are fictions, they are representation and reports and replicas of some thing or event. The crime scene photographs, the eye witness's description, the 911 tape recording, etc., all of them constitute parts of a total view of the crime being prosecuted. After they are presented, they are then tested. It is in the testing that the truth of the representations are verified or disproved. The truth tests determine for the jury whether the evidence is reliable. That's the truth of the matter.
Presumably one fiction is as good, or better than another.
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